Accounting for Area Sources in Air Pollution Models.

Area sources are important components of comprehensive air pollution models. The literature describes several approaches to modeling dispersion from such sources, but there is little consensus on an approach that can be applied to arbitrarily shaped area sources and is numerically efficient at the same time. This paper brings together ideas from previous work to propose an approach that meets these requirements.

Estimating inputs for dispersion modeling in mobile platform applications.

Mobile monitoring platforms (MMP) are popular in air quality studies. One application of MMP is in estimating pollutant emissions from area sources. The MMP is used to measure concentrations of the relevant species at several locations around the area source, while the associated meteorological information is measured at the same time.